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On my Website, 4npo.org, I often add non-profit organizations to the NPO Mall section. This section contains organizations that partially support their mission by selling products, services or goods. Before I add them to the NPO Mall I check to make sure that they are, indeed, a 501(c)(3). I often have to search the organizations Website for this information. Although, many organizations indicate that all donations are tax deductible I don't think you should assume that qualifies as suitable criteria for devloping trust.
One reason for having a Website is to inform the visitors to the site about your organization. What is more basic than letting them know upfront that your are a legitimate non-profit organization. I would like to suggest that more organizations include a link on the home page to their GuideStar profile. It would make it easier for potential donors and indicate your organizations operations are transparent. |
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August 29th, 2007 @ 12:25PM |
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I mentioned in an earlier post that I talked with two non-profits about using Flickr to enhance their Web sites. I'm glad to report that one of them has come around and started using it. They found that it's easy to use and really enhances the content of their site.
Here's how it came about. They wanted to add a couple of pages to their site where they would keep people up-to-date about the construction at their facility and the capital campaign that would pay for it. The organization is the Smith Memorial Playground and Playhouse. They added a few pictures to the construction page and noticed that it was taking longer and longer for the page to load. I suggested Flickr as a solution. They tried using Flickr as a repository for the photos. Had Flickr generate the HTML, then cut and paste it to their Web site. It worked very well and it was very easy to do. They have also used it to email photos to people. They don't have a Graphics application that would allow them to manipulate photos.
Take a look at their Construction Project page. I'm now trying to get them to put a little more time into developing the Flickr site, e.g starting a Flickr group, placing tags, descriptions and titles on their photos, and adding some of their photos to different groups in Flickr. By the way the DDN Flickr site also needs to start a group. That would allow all of us to add photos to the DDN group. |
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June 16th, 2005 @ 10:05AM |
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I attended this conference at MIT held May 4 - 6. The conference was free. I went because I thought it to be relavant to PhilaStories, and it was. I met a lot of good people and learned much about the study and practice of storytelling and stories. Never knew that so much research was devoted to storytelling.
When I saw that Bonnie Bracey was presenting at "Stories in the Classroom 1" I made sure I was there.  The title of her presentation was, "Storytelling and the Visual Arts." Bonnie produced a movie for the first time (I think) that told her personal story to children she was teaching. She made the point in her presentation and movie that if you want children to tell their stories you have to be willing to tell your story. Bonnie did that by making her own movie.
There were so many presentations that it was impossible to get to all of them. The abstracts and papers are available for anyone to view at MIT4. |
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June 14th, 2005 @ 7:45PM |
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My wife attended the Freedom to Connect (F2C) conference. One of the sessions, "Building Connected Communities," had Varinia Robinson, City of Philadelphia, as one of the panelist. Varinia talked about the Wireless Philadelphia program. This is of interest to PhilaStories because part of our mission will be to provide people in the city a reason to use the Internet. That is, by teaching people how to place their content on the Web they will become more interested in learning how to use the Internet.
You can read Sara's blog entry about the panel at Freedom to Connect, David Weinberger's entry Municipal wifi, and David S. Isenberg's entry F2C: Freedom to Connect: Read all about it!. |
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April 3rd, 2005 @ 12:44PM |
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Looking at what I've written so far I want to make a few changes. The Fkickr group PhilaStories is public not private. It doesn't make any sense to put up any barriers to joining PhilaStories. I think I was to hung up on trying to control what photos and tags were posted.
After seeing how people with experience are a little confused initially with Flickr's interface I know that I can't expect inexperienced users to work directly with it. I'll have a Web site that will be the frontend and will probably need a database on the backend to sort the photos by keyword. I may still use Flickr to store the photos. Which will also give me the Flickr community access to PhilaStories. I'm wondering whether the photos will display on my Web site if Flickr is down? I think there is some discussion about this now in one of the Flickr forums.
I've talked with two non-profits about how Flickr could enhance their Web sites but I don't think I made much of an impression. I don't think people, and not just non-profits, understand why it's important to bring as many people as possible to your Web site. Following are a few reasons why I believe it's important:
The more people who come to your Web site the more exposure they have to your mission;
The more people who link to your Web site the better ranking you'll get by the search engines;
Interesting and dynamic Web site content will generate repeat visits by your core community.
For more information on this subject read The Cluetrain Manifesto.
I hope to put the Web site up as a demo. I'm not sure how I'll go about adding a database. The recent discussions about "content management systems" appears to be something I need to look into.
It was suggested to me that I might talk with a historical society. There are many small historical society's whose mission is to preserve many of the old homes in Philadelphia. I just don't know how connected they are with the people in their neighborhoods. But I guess I'll find out. Or maybe PhilaStories could be a way for them to better connect with their neighbors. |
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March 27th, 2005 @ 11:41AM |
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